Calendared Event Quotes & Sayings

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance. If the boat is becalmed, one of the telescopes will be in continual use; it will seem to tell the whole, the unchanging truth. But this is an illusion; and as the boat sets off again, we return to our normal activity: scurrying from one telescope to another, seeing the sharpness fade in one, waiting for the blur to clear in another. And when the blur does clear, we imagine that we have made it do so all by ourselves. — Julian Barnes

Where was the lecture on how slavery alone catapulted the whole country from agriculture into the industrial age in two decades? White folks' hatred, their violence, was the gasoline that kept the profit motors running. — Toni Morrison

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. — Stephen Fry

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. — Anatole Broyard

I don't care about anything but keeping her alive. If it's a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that's what it takes. — Stephenie Meyer

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence. — Dillon Burroughs

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. — Gustav Stresemann

And I won't let anybody hurt the boys, since they're too wussy to defend themselves. — Seanan McGuire